Colloquium Event

Video from Aida X. El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - “Finding Beauty: The role of lattice QCD in high energy physics”

Date
Tue November 16th 2021, 4:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200

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APPLIED PHYSICS/PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

4:30 p.m. on campus in Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200

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Aida X. El-Khadra
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Finding Beauty: The role of lattice QCD in high energy physics”

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong interactions, is a beautifully simple quantum field theory which describes an extraordinary range of complex phenomena. A tour of the main features of QCD is followed by an introduction to lattice field theory, a nonperturbative approach to quantifying QCD effects. I will discuss the current status of lattice QCD calculations with a focus on results that are essential for unlocking the discovery potential of high energy experiments at the precision frontier.